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Anglicist Inspirational Quotes (88)

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For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.
Charles Simic
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Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.
Philip Levine
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Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.
Charles Simic
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My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.
Philip Levine
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Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.
Philip Levine
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My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
Philip Levine
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It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often feels like a brutal trivialization of reality.
Michael Helm
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It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.
Hanan Ashrawi
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The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.
Charles Simic
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Making art in America is about saving one's soul.
Charles Simic
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My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.
Philip Levine
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I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.
Philip Levine
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Palestinians were religious in many ways, but they did not subscribe to political Islam, historically.
Hanan Ashrawi
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I slept little, read a lot, and fell in love frequently.
Charles Simic
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Sometimes, the shortest path between two points is serpentine.
Christopher Benfey
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Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.
Michael Helm
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